Eric Pickles to be moored off Essex to provide home for Romanian immigrants

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles will become a haven for European immigrants, if plans to moor him as an artificial island become reality. The buoyant politician has already received a sea-worthiness certificate, and could soon provide a home for up to four migrants off the coast of Clacton.

“The PM has presented me with a set of hand-woven underpants, featuring my new crest of a gypsy eating a swan”, said Pickles. “I’m prepared to do what’s necessary to welcome my new community: if I float on my front, they can keep themselves warm in my luxuriant back hair.”

Pickles has not yet decided whether or not to apply for full EU membership, but if he does, he may struggle to meet their exacting regulations on marine pollution. “That’s not an oil slick, it’s just a spot of gravy seeping from my belly button”, insisted Pickles. “And fed enough pork, I can double-up as a self-sufficient wind farm.”

Pickles has been penciled in on navigation charts and can be seen from Google Earth, proving the lie to claims that no man is an island. But the politician admits he isn’t entirely comfortable with how he’s flagged to passing ships: “When I agreed to having a pole in my arse, I didn’t think they meant a firm young man called Zygmunt Nowak.”

John Donne was a mediaeval british christian philosopher/poet who wrote "no man is an island". well he spelt it funny but that's what he meant. and of course lots of people have written it, but he wrote it first...

anyway he wrote it as part of a very serios (and moving) sermon about how "the fate of humanity concerneth us all" or something like that. which makes using the phrase in connection to mooring Eric Pickles off Clacton particularly good! i think my favourite line of this sub, altho the gravy comes close...